LCDR Molly Waters

摘要

I graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 2003 and my first unit was the heavy icebreaker Mackinaw. It's not the current one that's afloat, but rather the old one that's now in a museum. She was 10,000 horsepower of red, steel and sex appeal and an amazing ship. It was such a privilege to learn how to drive her. It was the best possible start to a career between the ship's mission and the command climate onboard. Then I was sent to a patrol boat out in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to be the executive officer, so I got the opportunity to learn the alien migrant interdiction mission along with the counterdrug operations, and that was also a fantastic opportunity to see human lives in a real desperate situation. It's important to understand what a lot of other people in the world are going through. We pulled a lot of desperate souls out of a lot of bad boats out there.